{"id":844868,"date":"2024-08-16T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T04:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=844868"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T04:27:24","slug":"shrinking-entry-level-demand-stalls-smartphone-market-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/16\/shrinking-entry-level-demand-stalls-smartphone-market-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking entry-level demand stalls smartphone market growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Demand for entry-level smartphones (priced below $100 or about Rs 8,300) continued to fall in the quarter to June, a trend that is likely to keep overall industry growth restricted in the medium-term, according to executives and market research firms.<\/p>\n<p>The entry-level segment saw a 36% on-year slump in shipments in the April-June period, according to IDC. The segment accounted for 14% of total sales, down from 22% a year ago and around 40% in the pre-Covid-19 years before 2020,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Demand for entry-level smartphones (priced below $100 or about Rs 8,300) continued to fall in the quarter to June, a trend that is likely to keep overall industry growth restricted in the medium-term, according to executives and market research firms. The entry-level segment saw a 36% on-year slump in shipments in the April-June period, according to IDC. The segment accounted for 14% of total sales, down from 22% a year ago and around 40% in the pre-Covid-19 years before 2020,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}